I liked that film
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Yes, because it was well made. It also had the rare quality of actually surprising the audience. Not with a twist or whatever, but simply by killing off the lead halfway through the film and with no advance warning to boot!
I also appreciated the fact that LL Cool J got to survive as well, when all too often supporting characters in those films are no more than Starfleet red shirts.
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I had a major crush on the girl in that as well. The posh British one. She was in wing commander as well. Another film that i enjoyed that everyone else hated. I canât think of her name but it was saffron walden or something
Saffron burrows.
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Jacqueline McKenzie was pretty much the only reason I watched that film.
Actually liked it more than I expected, not quite the leave your brain at the door movie I was expecting.
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Be still my beating heart. It is like Christmas and my birthday rolled into one.
IIRC, the A4 still had a stereoscopic rangefinder and not the LRF like we had on the AS1, but I can live with that.
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What was the backup to the laser if it went down? Back to estimating with the reticle?
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Basically.
The CC estimated the range and their sight could be used as a range finder, but that was fiddly and time consuming. Every CC I knew was really good at estimating range, and was at least as accurate and quicker using the mil âgaugeâ in their binos (range estimation was an assess-able component of the CC course).
Sabot we would automatically fire at âbattleâ range (i.e. the default setting, IIRC 1000m for APDS) and adjust from there. For other ammo natures, the gunner could input range manually into the TFCS (primary sight).
The rest of the âshootâ was pretty much exactly the same. The only difference was the manual entry rather than pressing the lase button. At worse it might take an extra round to get on target.
For the secondary sight you had to enter range manually anyway but you would only use that if the TFCS was totally inop.
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Did you guys construct range cards when you had a fixed battle position? For HEAT/HESH like the UK favored I can definitely see a utility to that, but if youâre mainly firing sabot for most terrain I wouldnât think itâd be needed.
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Yes we did.
We would also use the traverse indicator and gun inclinometer to record things like crossing points, bridges etc so at night you could âaimâ at them without using the searchlight or active IR (our Leoâs didnât have passive night fighting capability).
This was primarily a backup if you didnât have indirect illum available (artillery or organic assets).
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I didnât know the jeep with a tow launcher was in game
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Neither did I, cool though 
But that vid does highlight one of the things that bugs me a bit about GHPC and that is artillery support, even if they are âon callâ:
It is way to quick to respond⊠Got to rouse those gunners who have to finish their cuppa first!
Unless they are firing at a pre-registered target area, you will be calling it in (single rounds), adjusting and then calling âfire for effectâ.
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I was wondering about that. Is it always a single HE round or smoke/some other round with same ballistics?
HE.
Once you have transmitted the initial call for for fire (grid reference, type of target, line OT, etc), you will get a âshot, overâ which means the round is on its way and if you have asked for it, a âsplash, overâ, which is 5 seconds to impact - if you need to be keeping down behind cover.
From there the adjustment process is if the round lands short âadd X, overâ. You always make a bold adjust so the next round is long, then you keep halving the adjustment until you are within the area covered by a barrage and say âfire for effect, overâ
So assuming it is a 105mm battery in support, that will cover a 150m x 150m area.
It would go something like this:
âArty Callsign (AC) this is Me Callsign (MC), fire mission over.â
âAC, send over.â
âMC initial call for for fire (grid reference, type of target, line OT, etc) report splash overâ
âAC wait outâ
a few minutes go by
âMC this is AC, shot overâ
âMC shot, outâ (basically you are acknowledging)
âMC this is AC, splash overâ
âMC splash, outâ (once again you are acknowledging)
Observe fall of shot. It is behind the target.
âMC add 400 overâ
âAC add 400 outâ
âMC this is AC, shot overâ
âMC shot, outâ
âMC this is AC, splash overâ
âMC splash, outâ
Observe fall of shot. It is in front of the target.
âMC drop 200 overâ
âAC drop 200 outâ
âMC this is AC, shot overâ
âMC shot, outâ
âMC this is AC, splash overâ
âMC splash, outâ
Observe fall of shot. It is slightly behind the target.
âMC add 100, fire for effect overâ (this is because you correction is within the 150x150 a barrage will cover)
âAC add 100, fire for effect outâ
Once all the noise stops. Poke your head above the parapet and give the gunners a description of the carnage they have just caused (they canât see it and love that shite).
Or, there is still some movement and:
âAC this is MC, repeat overâ
Which is why if you miss a transmission, regardless of whether you are talking to the gun bunnies or not, it is always âsay again overâ; never ârepeatâ.
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We need some of this in arma Reforger with a mortar battery 
that would be epic
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Call for fire was always fun! They should totally make a game out of it!
It did always take some time though. Once we had GPS, it was almost always faster in CAS to have the lead a/c bomb the GPS coordinates and adjust from there than it was to bracket arty for a mark. 
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Operation Flashpoint had a pretty decent Arty module made by CoC back in the days âŠ
As far as I can remember this addon was sold as a module for the professional VBS1 System.
Jens
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Honest question, is this expression âshot overâ or is this âshotâ, âoverâ with over as the standard RT terminology to end a transmission?
Iâve always been curious
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